Senior Software Engineer, AI Data Systems & Database Infrastructure
Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time.
Ambient.ai is the category creator and leader in Agentic Physical Security. Powered by Ambient Pulsar, the first reasoning Vision-Language Model purpose-built for physical security, our platform seamlessly integrates with existing security cameras and physical access control systems to unify monitoring, access control, threat assessment, response, and investigations through an always-on reasoning layer that augments security operators with superhuman capabilities. The results: 95% fewer false alarms, investigations 20x faster, and 10x faster response.
The momentum speaks for itself: we doubled new ARR in FY26, and have delivered results for world-class customers including Cisco, ServiceNow, SentinelOne, TikTok, Bayer, and MoMA. That kind of momentum creates an environment where great people thrive, and it shows: we recently ranked #71 out of 500 on the Forbes best startup employers list https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-best-startup-employers/.
Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is on a fast-paced journey to fulfill our mission: prevent every security incident possible.
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About the role:
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale the database platform that powers our most critical production and AI systems.
We are looking for an engineer who deeply understands databases and distributed systems, and who can build the platforms, abstractions, and scaling patterns required to operate data stores reliably at high scale.
In this role, you will work at the intersection of databases, distributed systems, application architecture, and AI infrastructure. You will help scale relational, analytical, and vector data stores across both the database layer and t...